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Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla quietly posted the first beta build of its Firefox 4 browser early this morning. The 'Chromified' browser leaves a solid first impression with a few minor hiccups, but no surprises. If you have been using a previous version of Firefox 3.7, which now officially becomes Firefox 4.0, you should already feel comfortable with this new version. Mozilla has not posted detailed release notes yet, but there seem to be no major changes from Firefox 3.7a6-pre, with the exception that the browser is running more smoothly and with fewer crashes."
Update: 06/29 18:40 GMT by S : Mozilla's Asa Dotzler writes, "Mozilla has not shipped Firefox 4 beta yet. We are in the process of making and testing the final set of changes, but we're not quite there yet." Changed headline to reflect this.
Its quality has gone down because they got rid of their nigger-free code only policy. This had led it to become almost as buggy as ie.
Funny you mention that.
Two weeks ago, I had the following open at the same time (this is in addition to all my other "normal" tabs I leave open, like Facebook, Twitter, etc.): GameTrailers, Newgrounds, Kongregate, and, ::blush:: Redtube. No problems, stability or otherwise.
For the record, I don't have a crazy PC either...quite average, by today's standards. From my [H]ard|Forum sig:
Display: Asus VH236H | Dell 2005FPW
Foundation: Cooler Master Storm Scout | OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w
System: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H | AMD Athlon II X4 635 | Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2 800 | ATI 4850
Internal Storage: Diamondmax 21 system | WD15EADS archives
External Storage: 1.25TB in a KINGWIN DK-32U-S | WDMER1600TN
Input: Kensington 64325 Expert Mouse | Saitek Eclipse II | M-Audio Axiom 25
Headphones: non-amped Audio Technica ATH-AD700
Living With a Nerd
The most up to date thing in my system is the processor, which is about six months old (or, at least, it was released six months ago. I only dropped it in there about a week ago, prior to which I was using an X2 5400+.) Other than that, the newest piece of hardware in my system is the 1.5 T hard drive, and that doesn't really impact performance. The video card, which is close to two years old at this point, is hardly a heavy hitter.
So, yes, by today's standards it is quite out of date. ATI 4850, DDR2 instead of DDR3, the motherboard uses the AMD 780 chipset...it's definitely out of date. Still a great machine that can handle most anything I throw out at, but compared to what's out there, it's out of date.
Living With a Nerd
Boy, I wish you luck finding that fight you're looking for.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
What is a 'big site'?
Your mom's bedroom? She had to make sure it met fire codes for occupancy of up to 24 people, for professional reasons.
Bow-ties are cool.
More proof that Slashdot doesnt research links, OR read user comments.
It seems like he's being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative to me. Whatever.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.